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can one get a sharper angled bass clarinet neck?

Author: Ed Lowry
Date: 2014-03-01 23:58

I'm wondering whether there are "moderned-angled" necks for my Selmer Low-c bass clarinet, built in 1988. Tilting my head back aggravates a bulging disk in my neck, so I think I could benefit from the sharper angle which appears now to be the norm.

The neck comes in two pieces. The larger one has the register key (vent?) and between it and the mouthpiece is a connecting pipe with no holes, other than the ones at both ends. It seems to me that replacing this shorter, simpler tube with one with a sharper bend might work.

So, do these modifications exist, and if so, do they work or introduce other problems?

Thanks for your thoughts.

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Re: can one get a sharper angled bass clarinet neck?

Author: qualitycontrol
Date: 2014-03-02 02:08

Newer Selmer necks are angled much more steeply. Call a shop that sells them and see what a replacement neck costs and ask as well if they're interchangeable with older basses.

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Re: can one get a sharper angled bass clarinet neck?

Author: LCL
Date: 2014-03-02 07:48

In this PDF, what you are asking about can be found

www.charlesbaywoodwinds.com/downloads/CharlesBayCatalog.pdf

Best,

LCL

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Re: can one get a sharper angled bass clarinet neck?

Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2014-03-02 08:37

I can re-angle it.

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